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THURSDAY. JANUARY 5. 1922
HIS CITY NEPHEW
qi„R®U,ben Sr'7nover'
sage or
Singletree canyon, was In Tillamook
U»t Saturday from his ranch, to see
hl» sporty nephew off to Portland.
The wagon was loaded with gun
THE TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
‘JoLfri’ and he n‘^-n«med his
sin Ira, The simple rustic.’
felieSrUCta J*“*
had wlth ,hal
chi? H prerended he thought our
Snr
Ch,na Pheasant“ and
the back stoop pihed full of 'em.
and his aunt remonstrated
with him, he laughed at us, and
said:
“Munition boxes, decoy
ducks, fishing tackle
and to other
tail-gate
the j ’Pennoy
“
trumpery from
„ 3 8Uppoi
’e you've heard what
spring seat.
to Cleveland, hain't
1 you?”
As the - youth
old maQ | ..j
— hade
uauc the
lae 01d
wbat it was, and he
good-bye, and Maned for th® depot 8aid-
,
You tend t0 y°ur business
after disposing of his'Tutflt in'aTTT, | I and ' 111 tend to mine."
Soonover said: “I I ’ ’ m
m ; “Weil, sir, j ]18t blIed QVer and
mighty glad he’s gone.”
J give him a lecture, but he put hn
iPrtDr*b " 1 Z°U ’enjOy his V18lt-” Quer- I 1 hand up to his ear, and played deaf
hi not reporter who had witnessed I
on me. He jabbed my pore old plow
the not over cordial parting
team with a three-tined pitchfork
„There ain’t none of u8 will say u^ntil they kicked the back end or
so exclaimed the old man indig the barn nearly off."
nantly. 1 never was so sick of any
“One morning he got up. and
body m my life, as that fooj boy He
before breakfast and shot and kill
jist stayed a week, but it seemed like
ed a fine Berkshire sow wuth 325,
a whole year. You ought to have
claimin he thought she was a grizz
heard him order us around. He call
ly bear. If he hadn't been my sis
ed me 'Uncle Hayseed,’ his aunt,
ter
’s youngest child, I believe I
Mother Lightfoot,' because she woft
would have taken a good thick vine
slippers on account of rheumatis’ in 1 maple saplin’ to him.
“I can’t begin to tell haif the
devilment
that • teller did—and
cheek—I never did see the beat of
it!"
He talkd through his noae to
Brother Snooks, our preacher; he
tried to get Miss Prim, the purty
little school ma’am to «-lope with
him. He objected to Ira eatin’ with
his knife, and pretended he was
afraid Ira’d cut his mou th. Every
time I’d start in to tell an anticdole
or anything, he’d say: “Awful mol
dy, Unci® Hayseed, give us some-
thing up-to-date.”
“Actually, sometimes, I thought
the boy was Tackin’ in the upper
story,’ as the sayin’ is. Why. he’d
ti* up a sack of cow feed to a rafter
in the barn, strip down to his under
shirt and britches, and maul that
sack for half an hour at a time, 'till
I thought he’d bust the sack. Me
and his aunt watched hint through
a crack in th® barn, till we was
plumo disgusted and tired out. Jist
a day or two before he left, he got
Finny Flytime, a neighbor boy to
put on the boxin’ mittens with him,
and the fust pass Finny made he
knocked him 1 flat, and when Finny
i
got up, he clinched, and I had to
part ’em with a four-tined pitch
fork."
“Well, he's gone, and he ain’t got
no invite to come back duck hunt
in’ from none of us. neither. I But,
Oosh-all Hemlocks, he'll come, ln-
vite or no invite, if he happens i to
take a notion," concluded the old
man, as he went up town to get
some face-powder for the school
ma'am."
War Waged Againit Mole»
PAGE, SEVE*
The second largest catch in each dis
trict will receive a (15 and the third
highest a $10 prise. In addition to
this the county agent is conducting
a pool of the mole skins and will re
turn to each youngster his share of
the money received for the skins.
Th® county is also paying a bounty
of five cents on the moles and
gophers, which will be received by
the children in addition to the
money
received for the skins.
Meetings are being held in every
school district in the county for
this campaign.
The mole campaign is getting un
der way and to date 34 meetings
Charley J. Cater has just received
have been held in Washington and the news that he has been awarded
Tillamook counties with a total at the contract for carrying the United
tendance of 1071 people.
States mail between the post office
In Tillamook county >200 has in this city and the Southern Pacific
been secured to be offered as prizes depot, his duties begining January
to the school children catching the Sth. 1932.
most moles. For the purpose of dls-
tributing the prizes the county has
Sawmills are starting up every
been divided into four districts and where along th® coast, and the non
a first prize of >25 in each district employment spectre will soon be a
will be given to the boy or girl turn thing of th® past.
ing in the largest (number of moles
and gopher skins to the county
Born to Mrs. W. C. Bufam a
agent’s office in the ensuing year, daughter Jan. 4th 1922
HOLD WOMEN IN SUBJECTION
“ffgual Rights” Theory Has Ne Stand-
Ing Among Tribes of the African
Slave Coast
Woman to still the Inferior sex In
Africa. Man still makes her the beast
of burden, the salable chattel, and
treats her like aa ignorant and re
calcitrant child. With the Yorubas on
the Slave coast, man's chief occupa
tion seems to be to direct and im
press women. Among other things,
“to prove to the womenfolk that man
rises and goes to heaven,” says a Uni
versity of Pennsylvania Museum bulle
tin, “a man, dressed in the shroud
of the dead man, and with a wooden
mnsk of the dead man’s face upon him.
Is placed in a private room with the
body. Then, when all the family Is as
sembled in an adjoining room, some
one strike« the ground three times
with a stick, crying out “Father!
Father! Father! answer met" The
■■Egun,’’ or man with the corpse, an
swers In a deep voice, and everybody
claps hands and rejoice«.
Ever the male children are aware
that it Is the "Egun" who answers;
but frail woman Is supposed not to
know. Woe betide her If she voices
nay doubts or unbelief about it! She
gets a good beating. The ‘‘Egun" has
developed in many localities of Yoru-
baland Into a kind of bogy whose func
tion It Is to spirit away undesirables—
busybodies, scolds, scandalmongers.
The women are his special providence,
although on occasion he will punish a
man if that high-and-mlghty member
of society can ever be thought guilty
of any punishable offense! An African
woman who threatens an “Egun" with
personal violence, or speaks evil of
htm, Is punishable by nothing toss than
death.
WORLD LOVES PLEASANT MAN
Simple Rules by Which Ono May At
tain Popularity, and Ite Con-
eomltant, Power.
Learn to laugh; a good laugh to bet
ter than medicine.
• Learn how to tell a story; a good
atory, well told, is as welcome aa a
sunbeam in a sick-room.
Le%ra to keep your own troubles to
yourself; the world Is loo busy to cam
for your Ills and sorrows.
Learn to stop croaking; if you can
not see any good In the world, keep
the bad to yoamelf.
Lean te hide your aches and pains
under pleasant- smile«; no one cares
to hear whether yon have headaches,
sarachss, or rhewnattom.
Learn to meet your(frtoaito with a
smile; a good-humored man or woman
Is always welcome, but the dyspeptic
to not wanted anywhere.
Above all, ghre pleasure; lose ne
chance of giving ptoaoere.
You will pern through thia world
but once.
Any good thing, tbomfore. that you
can do, or any kiadaeas that you can
shew to any teaman being, you had bet
ter <fo It now; do not defer or neglect
It
For you wlH not pass thto way
again—Mbatrehl Family Herald.
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Flgas Have Tbelr Usee.
The next' time you are worried by a
flee, do not bo toapatleut with it It
has pis uses, remarks. London Answers
Glasgow, which jnstly prides Itself
on Its munlsipal eflk-teney,* has lately
discovered that even small toieocts may
he utilised In.the latereasa of empii«.
The filters at- Its sewage purification
works becetne periodically ahoked with
a gelatinous matter, the clearing away
of which was very costly. The local
authorities have now enlisted large
numbers of insects of the flea tribo,
and the reeulto ere remarkable.
■ach of these Insects absorbs four
pounds per waek of thto disturbing
gelatin, and allows the sewage to be
converted Into water that pooeeaaee
crystal ctoarnaaa
Acharutee, an they are called, have
hitherto been regarded merely as
poets. It to fortunate that we have
found iMsne wful ew|>iuyroent for
them at last I
-In the Ju#.”
“In »he jug*' Is an rxpreeaion that
baa all the characteristics of slang
but It was adopted into our own pateto
from that of the Fee's
Jug. la this cnnaecMon. doesn’t
mean a vessel, though It to tempting
to trace »be UtougM of someone being
In jail to the term of “bottled up."
The word Itself Is’derived from the
McotNsh "joog," a kind of town yoke
or pillory for the bead. rill«h year®
ago was need In the tnmUbmdit M
rogues end criminels. When years
Inter, a round bouse of stone was net
up la the masket place for such offen
ders. thto prison was popularly called
"tbe stone jug." Thia particular builds
Is supposed to have been the first
ever eoaetni<‘-d
Clvinsstlon Four Thousand Years
Excavation at KMwu«, I’aetoa. and
other altee In Crete has not eterei y
eatabltohsd the exlatrare of a people
whow form
civilization was the
Cari lest In Europa, but haa shown
much about their dally life, games,
ainuaenii nt« : their art. religion, writ
ing—though hardly yet their language;
their phya'eal characteristics, drees,
and the houses they lived In. A h'ir»
pair, re hns lw<n nr.* nrtlie<l nt K imwmm
It haa >i draInn X>‘ ayatetr. that an
eminent Italian ar»hor>h>irt't lui< <!*»•
ile- ' n» ' ■hsidi'* '
Engflah,” and
that ceri a intv antlcipatea the hy-
drsiillc engineering of the Vnet**enth
• n>r> T> •• t » of •<• tn.v engaged
In the work ratiniate the age of thell
illscuverlen at F»»> years.
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